Northwestern's Knight Lab

Knight Lab

Andrew A. Nelles, Blue Sky/April 28, 2015

Students work at the Northwestern University Knight Lab in Evanston. The lab recently got a nod from the Pulitzer Prize Board for its TimelineJS, a free platform that helps journalists create content-rich timelines to supplement news coverage.

Students work at the Northwestern University Knight Lab in Evanston. The lab recently got a nod from the Pulitzer Prize Board for its TimelineJS, a free platform that helps journalists create content-rich timelines to supplement news coverage.

The Pulitzer Prize Board praised the Daily Breeze newspaper of Torrance, Calif., for its “impressive use of the paper’s website” in detailing widespread corruption in a small, cash-strapped school district. The newspaper’s online coverage included use of the Knight Lab’s TimelineJS.

The Pulitzer Prize Board praised the Daily Breeze newspaper of Torrance, Calif., for its “impressive use of the paper’s website” in detailing widespread corruption in a small, cash-strapped school district. The newspaper’s online coverage included use of the Knight Lab’s TimelineJS.